Controlling infectious disease through the targeted manipulation of contact network structure

Epidemics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2015, Pages 11-19

  Gates, M Carolyn ^a   Woolhouse, Mark E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cattle movements; Configuration wiring; Disease control; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BOVINE; CATTLE MOVEMENT NETWORK; CONTACT NETWORK; DATA BASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMAL; CATTLE DISEASE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84940792747     PISSN: 17554365     EISSN: 18780067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2015.02.008     Document Type: Article

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